Responsive Tabs Plugin Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
CVE-2024-1846

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Responsive Tabs
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 April 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The Responsive Tabs WordPress plugin before 4.0.7 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected Version(s)

Responsive Tabs 0 < 4.0.7

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-1846 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ea2a8420-4b0e-4efb-a0c6-...
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Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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